US born players playing in overseas

This is always an interesting topic, as there are players that we've followed throughout the course of their career only to end up playing overseas instead of playing in the NBA; where I'm sure they all dreamt about playing in one day.

A player that always comes to mind is former UCLA Bruin and fellow Long Beach native Tyus Edney. Now granted, this guy is way older than I was. Although, I always heard stories about the legend that is Tyus Edney when he was playing for Long Beach Poly. He had a brief stint with the Kings and Celtics.

Unfortunately he was never able to stick around the NBA. Since then, he has been playing in Europe where he has made a name for himself.

he brought his New York swagger to North Carolina State where he had a very good career. He was projected as a lottery pick after his Sophomore year, but IMO waited too long to bolt for the NBA where the scouts were able to pick apart his game.

should do an extennsive article on former college stars who are now playing in europe. I would be curious to see how a lot of names from the past are doing over there. I thought Sam Clancy was gonna be a solid nba pro.

of these shorter power forwards we see that are now having a lot of success in the NBA. The guy had it all; mid range jumper, long arms (which made him USC's all time leading shot blocker), great rebounder, but best of all the guy had a ton of heart. He suffered a major knee injury (that sealed his fate in the NBA) during the NBA predraft camp which caused him to fall to the 76ers in the second round in 2002.

Yup, Ray Allen backwards. I loved him at Villanova and still think he has a decent chance of coming back to the states one day to play in the NBA. He's got some pretty good stats for a team in Italy and a pretty good highlight tape too(a couple nice dunks). I'm pretty sure in his short stint with the Celtics he had 20 pts in a couple games, but he ended up being able to make more money overseas.

Jimmie "Snap" Hunter is who i think is tha best U.S player overseas, he's from Memphis played a year for tha Tigers, bumped heads wit punk ass Tic Price, left and went 2 some Divsion 2 school where he was tha best player in their league and i think they won a championship. he always plays good in NBA summer ball when he's here but majority of his playing days have been overseas and i think he's a great player.

Yeah, he was only 6-7, but he had a huge wingspan, played above the rim, and could shoot out to 18 feet with confidence. I wonder if he would have made it if he did'nt lose his whole rookie season to an injury. I thouhgt he was the second best prospect to come out of the pac 10 that year behind only Arenas.

Wasn't aware the Brad Miller 2.0 no longer plays basketball. Good to see him coming back home and giving back to the community. Gansey had some game, I remember him lighting up Aaron Afflalo when WV came to play UCLA at Pauley. It still surprises me to see Chris Quinn get PT for the Heat, Gansey should've gotten his minutes LOL.

Since you're from WV and are familiar with the hoops program, do you know where Majestic Mapp ended up? That guy was lights out in High School! Come to think of it the 2001 High School senior class all ended up flopping; Majestic Mapp, Carlos Hurt, Jerome Harper, Omar Cook, and Rashad Carruth have fallen off the face of the Earth!